Americans used the U.S. Postal Service more this holiday season and continue to give the quasi-governmental agency better marks than its private competitors for the way it handles their packages.

Twenty-one percent (21%) of American Adults say they used the USPS more this holiday season than they have in previous years, while 18% say they used it less. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 60% rate their use of the Postal Service as about the same as in past years. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The survey of 1,000 American Adults was conducted on December 27, 2015 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

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